Bloke accused of flooding Gene Simmons’ website The FBI has arrested a man suspected of taking part in a DDoS attack that smashed KISS bassist and reality telly star Gene Simmons’ web site off the internet.…
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Feds cuff KISS rock star’s DDoS suspect
Looking back on 2011, FortiGuard Labs saw a number of landmark developments in the world of network security. Huge botnets such as DNS Changer and Coreflood were permanently taken off line, 64-bit roo…
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2012 network security trends
Data finds over 1 m UK Home PCs Belonging to Botnets The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported that a Dutch security researchers’ group trying to determine methods by which compromising of home PCs can be lessened from getting criminally used, recently, discovered that crime botnets seized over 1m home computers in UK.
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Cybercriminals are spamming the web with millions of home computers recruited to botnets
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Hi-tech crime in the UK
According to McAfee’s third quarter security threats report (Q3-2011), revealed by Intel-owned security technology firm, cybercriminals seems to change their tactics of circulating malware for avoiding law enforcement, reports v3.co.uk on November 21, 2011. Commenting on the findings, Toralv Dirro, Security Strategist at McAfee Labs EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) said that as a result of a sudden augment of virus indulgence, large botnets are being shut down and operators are being driven to concentrate more on smaller and localized networks, highlights v3.co.uk on November 21, 2011. While explaining the matter, Dirro claimed that law enforcement becomes more interesting when the botnet is bigger
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McAfee Suspects Sophisticated Indulge at Cybercriminals’ Demeanor
A new paper being presented next month at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) shows easy it is to infiltrate Facebook and harvest valuable user data. Botnets, networks of hijacked computers controlled remotely for criminal gain or spreading propaganda, have been aggravating cybersecurity professionals for years. The near-billion people connected to social networks has made Facebook and Twitter the new juicy targets for similar schemes
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Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Infiltrate Facebook
Large denial of service attacks have rocked Palestinian severing internet service to the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Communications Minister Mashur Abu Daqqa told reporters the attacks originated from locations “all over the world … using mirror servers.” Up to a million packets a second had hit Palestine’s incumbent telephone company PalTel, local media said
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DoS attack rocks Palestine, cuts phones, internet
Malware is on the rise.
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Satanbot Employs VBScript to Create Botnet
Google’s servers can be used by cyber attackers to launch DDoS attacks, claims Simone “R00T_ATI” Quatrini, a penetration tester for Italian security consulting firm AIR Sicurezza.
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Google servers as a DDoS tool
When some people hear about DDoS attacks and botnets containing thousands of zombie hosts, they think it could never happen on their network. While it is true that most of the recent attacks on websites were directed at high profile names, other networks can host the systems responsible for the attacks. In other cases your neighbors could gain access to your network via wireless connections and use it for sending email.
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Is There a Zombie On Your Network?